Turkish German cinema in the new millennium
Subtitle: sites, sounds, and screens
By: edited by Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Film Europa: German cinema in an international context -- 13
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780857457684; 9780857457691
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture audiences; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Culture in motion pictures; Foreign language films; Turkish Motion pictures; Motion pictures and transnationalism; History
Description: In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images, citing and rewriting American gangster narratives, Kung Fu action films, and paralleling other emergent European minority cinemas. This, the first book-length study on the topic, will function as an introduction to this emergent and growing cinema and offer a survey of important films and directors of the last two decades. In addition, it intervenes in the theoretical debates about Turkish German culture by engaging with different methodological approaches that originate in film studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: CONFIGURATIONS OF STEREOTYPES AND IDENTITIES: NEW METHODOLOGIES. Daniela Berghahn: My big fat Turkish wedding: from culture clash to romcom; title: David Gramling: The oblivion of influence: mythical realism in Feo Alada's When we leave; title: Marco Abel: The minor cinema of Thomas Arslan: a prolegomenon; title: MULTIPLE SCREENS AND PLATFORMS: FROM DOCUMENTARY AND TELEVISION TO INSTALLATION ART. Angelica Fenner: Roots and routes of the diasporic documentarian: a psychogeography of Fatih Akin's We forgot to go back; title: Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey: Gendered kicks: Buket Alakus's and Aysun Bademsoy's soccer films; title: Nilgan Bayraktar: Location and mobility in Kutlu Ataman's site-specific video installation Kuba; title: Brent Peterson: Turkish for beginners: teaching cosmopolitanism to Germans; title: Brad Prager: "Only the wounded honor fights": Zili Alada's rage and the drama of the Turkish German perpetrator; title: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS: STARS, THEATERS, AND RECEPTION. Randall Halle: The German Turkish spectator and Turkish language film programming: Karli Kino, maximum distribution, and the interzone cinema; title: Berna Gueneli: Mehmet Kurtulu and Birol Ünel: Sexualized masculinities, normalized ethnicities; title: Karolin Machtans: The perception and marketing of Fatih Akin in the German press; title: Ayìa Tunì Cox: Hyphenated identities: the reception of Turkish-German cinema in the Turkish daily press; title: THE CINEMA OF FATIH AKIN: AUTHORSHIP, IDENTITY, AND BEYOND. Mine Eren: Cosmopolitan filmmaking: Fatih Akin's In July and Head-on; title: Roger Hillman and Vivien Silvey: Remixing Hamburg: transnationalism in Fatih Akin's Soul kitchen; title: Deniz Gukturk: World cinema goes digital: looking at Europe from the other shore.